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Distant object discovered orbiting the sun:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4726733.stm

Astronomers determine it to be Bush's brain.

In an interesting twist, a Chemist discovers that Napoleon's wallpaper was indeed green, and therefore, "Nappy" may have been poisoned by it:

http://www.grand-illusions.com/napoleon/napol1.htm

This adds another piece of Napoleon trivia to my internal file, which consists of:

Strange Things I Know About Napoleon*
He was obsessed with his maid's breasts.
He named Pumpernickel bread for his horse ("Pahn por Nickel")
He may have died a virgin.
When he died, he showed signs of a sickness that affected his body's ability to utilise testosterone (He was hairless, and had developed rounded breasts like a woman.)
Until very recently, I thought that the British had poisoned him.
His penis was removed post-mortem and saved in a bottle by his manservant who described it as a "like a little seahorse."

*Of course, I can't vouch for the truthfulness of these little bits of trivia. They could be complete lies. I'd have to do the research to find out for sure, and well, I don't want to do the research right now. So, "YMMV."

Approximate locations of unexploded, unrecovered nuclear devices within the United States

Tybee Island, Savannah Georgia This bomb is an MK15 mod 0 1.5 to 3.8 megaton yield.

In February 1958, a B-47 bomber had a midair collision with a jet fighter southeast of Savannah and had to jettison the bomb in order to land safely. It was dumped somewhere along the southern shore of uninhabited Little Tybee Island. After a cursory search failed to reveal its whereabouts, the military threw up its hands and abandoned the search.

Faro, North Carolina, 12 Miles North of Goldsboro North Carolina, cow pasture at the crossroads. This bomb is most likely a MK39, 2 to 2.5 megaton yield.

(Jan 24th, 1961) During a B-52 airborne alert mission structural failure of the right wing resulted in two weapons separating from the aircraft during aircraft breakup at 2,000 - 10,000 feet altitude. One bomb parachute deployed and the weapon received little impact damage. The other bomb fell free and broke apart upon impact. No explosion occurred. Five of the eight crew members survived. A portion of one weapon, containing uranium, could not be recovered despite excavation in the waterlogged farmland to a depth of 50 feet. The Air Force subsequently purchased an easement requiring permission for anyone to dig there.

Off the Coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey (x2)

July, 1957, records aren't quite clear if it was the night of the 28th or 29th, an Air Force C-124 cargo plane experiencing mechanical difficulties was forced to dump two nukes off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey, one 50 miles out, the other 75 miles.

The Government has made no further Broken Arrow reports involving weapon loss public since 1980. I'm not sure if this means that there have not been any, or if they've decided not to tell us about them anymore.

Feeling good about yourself? How about a gallery full of found photos of random people flipping off the camera?

http://www.10eastern.com/foundphotos/foundphotos2.php?galleryNum=-1&page=1&tn=FALSE

Yeah, that's what I thought that you thought about me, America.

I've been looking at del.icio.us lately. It's the implementation of an old idea. Everybody bookmarks things using a common web-tool, which collects and then rates, counts, etc, these links. You can visit your links from any computer, and others can see the "next new thing" by looking at a compiled linklist of popular bookmarks, or track your interests based upon user-assigned keywords.

An interesting idea, BUT ... All it does for me, is serve as a reminder of how most people bookmark crap.

This morning, delicious lists an inane post from PC World about "Great things you can do with the internet" as being linked to ~400 other people, while one of the sites in the article, one that skillfully combines the interfaces of Google Maps and Craigslist, a truly useful and innovative interface that you might use everyday is linked to by only 114 people.

Hello. Wake up. Don't bookmark tech articles you never intend to read! Bookmark useful utilities and informational sites that can help you out later on. I mean, for pete's sake, only 66 people have bookmarked Thomas.gov, while 72 people have bookmarked a page showing you how to make actual super mario power up blocks. "Sweet! My government is becoming increasingly Orwellian, things are much better in 'World 4-1,' I wish I lived there instead." I want to utilize this service to find useful informational sites. If I want the latest in web articles I don't want to read, I can read metafilter or slashdot, both of which have convenient "search" features so that I can find them later on in case I need me some silliness.

this is pretty dang funny:

the 1000 fighting techniques of rumsfeld

freaking fascinating i am SO the rich!

another badly named snack product.

apocalypse yesterday: Before and after satellite photos of that train explosion in North Korea.

trying to turn fourteen bucks into a thousand in a year.

don't forget to steal this one too:

open letter to the crackhead that is sawing off the tops of my sparkplugs to make a crackpipe...

YOU ARE A CRACKHEAD. WHY DON'T YOU OWN A CRACKPIPE?

I am an engineer. Do you ever see me shaking down bums in the Loin for a calculator and sliderule? No, you don't. Because engineering is the main thing I do, I went and bought myself a calculator. The main thing you do is crack. How do you get by without a crackpipe? The other crackheads must clown on you non-stop. I mean, the fucking saw you used to saw off my sparkplugs is probably worth five or ten bucks. Why not sell or trade it for a crackpipe? You really haven't put much thought into this, have you?

Please, Crackhead, please don't tell me you sold your crackpipe to buy crack. Even a stupid crackhead such as yourself couldn't possibly be that stupid.

thanks to didymos for the link.

coffee777 and i keep wondering how far the reality show trend will go, long ago he postulated that the trend will, and indeed can ONLY end with the death of a contestant. in the nineteen seventies, Chuck Barris, in an interview, said that the ultimate game show would be one where losing contestants were killed. we aren't there yet, but this example (if it really did occur,) seems to be pushing that envelope:
http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/nasubi.html

apparantly the freedom of speech should extend to the tip of the president's nose. (and not what's up it.)

"There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of this site, and
this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is." -George W. Bush, concerning the hyperlinked website, which parodies him.